ME 4220 - Stirling Cycle Machine Analysis

• Students will be able to analyze and simulate Stirling cycle machines, including the use of ideal isothermal and ideal adiabatic models in which all three heat exchangers are considered perfect.
• Students will be able to extend the ideal adiabatic computer simulation to include the heat transfer and flow friction effects of all three heat exchangers on the performance of the Stirling cycle machine.
• Students will be able to extend the ideal adiabatic model to include a regenerator effectiveness of less than unity and to compute its effect on the performance of the Stirling cycle machine.
• Students will be able to perform parametric sensitivity analyses, a required step in design optimization.
• Students will be able to explain the operating principles, history, and development of Stirling cycle machines including both engines and heat pumps and their renewed relevance in the current energy and global warming crises.
• Students will be able to describe convective heat exchanger scaling parameters and extend the ideal adiabatic computer simulation to include the heat transfer and flow friction effects of all three heat exchangers on Stirling cycle machine performance.
• Students will be able to explain convective heat exchanger scaling parameters.